KoreaCrunch

You can refer my this column in ZDNet Korea.

I introduced korean servces with web 2.0 concepts. 1. User paticipation - Ohmynews: http://www.ohmynews.com - an alternative media with citizenship reporters - Cyworld: http://www.cyworld.com - an widely spreading social network service - Daum Agora: http://agora.media.daum.net - a bulletin board system for issues. - Naver Blog: http://blog.naver.com - an information clipping based blog service. 2. Blogging - Egloos : http://egloos.com - independant blogging service. - Allblog: http://www.allblog.net - meta blogging service. - Tattertools: http://tattertools.com - popular blogging tool. 3. Collective Intelligence - Naver Knowledge In: http://kin.naver.com - Q/A based information database - Yahoo! Hub: http://kr.hub.yahoo.com - Tagging based bookmarking. - Daum Pie: http://pie.daum.net - collective photo upload service. - Eolin : ...

This article is an epilogue of Web 2.0 Conference journey. The concept of web 2.0 was same of TBL's primary thought in 1993. So I think web2.0 is the homeing instinct against centralization such as portal. Refer to this article of ZDNet in korean.

There are many beta services. How to succeed with beta services? 1. Closed based viral marketing for opnion leader (major bloggers, early-adopters) 2. Very rapid response and feedback with beta users. 3. Let them join to make addtional services with open api. 4. Protect sensibility of beta users. (It's harmful ignorance such as Yahoo and Flickr's ID integration.) Beta services must satisfy users with innovation and core competance. Refer to this article of ZDNet in korean.